Junie in burn unit UPDATES (doing well!)

On Saturday night we went to a party and they had a bonfire. We've been around fire a lot and DS is very good about it. But this time he got too close and fell in the fire. In hindsight, he's hitting a growth spurt and hes been kinda clumsy this week. Another parent pulled in out immediately and I ran to him, picked him up and carried/ran him inside and got cold water on him immediately. The ER was 2 mintues away so we wraped his hands and forearms in a wet towel and sped there. They got his pain under control and transferred us via ambulance to the best burn center in the state. So that is where we are now.

Unfortunately, he did end up with some 3rd degree burns on his hands and will need surgery.

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I am SO sorry this happened to your little one. My daughter suffered a 2nd degree burn on her arm at 10 months old due to a hot cup of tea spilling on her (I still resent my mom for that, even though I know it was an accident) & it was absolutely horrible. The one saving grace is that at least it wasn't your LO's face, & more than likely, he won't even remember this later in life. But it still sucks huge. I will definitely keep your family in my prayers for a quick recovery.

Went to the birn unit Wednesday morning for a check up. Casy is still healing really well. The Doctor is postponing surgery again. It has been re-scheduled for Monday at 5:30am. Casy will be under "light" anestesia so the Doctor can clean and take a good look. At that time she will make a final decision wether he will get any skin grafts or not. If she thinks he needs grafts then he will go under deeper and she will do the surgery right then. If she has to graft the forearm then the "donor site" will be his inner thigh (skin is thinner there). But if she has to do any grafts on his palm she will have to take a deeper sample from his groin area. The donor sites will hurt and need to heal too.

Since the appointment is so early in the morning, and we live 2 hours away from that hosptial, we'll go on Sunday night and stay at either the Ronald McDonald house or at a hotel. If we stay in a hotel the Ronald McDonald house will give us a voucher so the room will only be $40/night.

We are now doing a different kind of dressing, so we only need to change them about every 3-4 days. Thank God! The debriding is so stressful.

The fingers on his left hand are almost healed enough that we won't have to wrap them! We would just make sure they get lots of lotion.

The "donor sites" look horrible. They took "full thickness" skin from both sides of his groin. They just pulled the sides together so he has 2 scars that are about 6 inches long. and he has another patch on this upper thigh that is about the size of half of a dollar bill where they only took a shallow piece of skin. That is covered with tegaderm (clear plastic).

I'm told that sometimes the "donor sites" hurt more than the burns.

He tolerated the anestesia well. He woke up with some pain, but we were allowed to be in the PACU and asked for more pain meds right away.